Herne to finish debut US TA2 season at COTA
One of Australia’s most talented overseas products Nathan Herne will wrap up his debut season in the American TA2 at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on November 2-5.
The Texas track is where the “Lismore Bullet” first had his chance to impress in front of a US audience when he did a one-off round at COTA with Stevens-Miller Racing at the back end of 2022 after winning his second straight Australian Trans Am title.
He finished fourth in that race in a massive field and turned enough heads to get a full season with the backing of Cube3 Racing in the Stevens-Miller #29 Mustang.
Herne took P3 at the penultimate American TA2 round in Virginia
Whilst Herne has had his fair share of mechanical let-downs across the 12 round season, he’s also managed to fight his way onto the podiums at New Orleans, Nashville, and Virginia, as well as having another dubiously stripped at Watkins Glen in the tech shed.
Herne has also tried his hand at racing Late Model machines on the dirt of Missouri and St Louis for the Millard Family Racing team.
In the TA2 driver standings, Herne is sitting in tenth place overall (out of 64) with room to jump up the standings at COTA, and is third in the Rookie pointscore (out of 32), just 24 points behind Thad Moffitt, and depending on other results, can still haul in Austin Green to take out the first year drivers title.
Herne returns to the track where he raced his first American TA2 event at COTA in 2022, taking P4 on debut.
After Qualifying on November 4 at 3:10pm local time, Herne will be gunning for his first win of the season on November 5 with a 30 lap or 75min race.
He also goes in with the advantage of having already raced at the Formula 1 circuit, which will be the first such occasion for the Aussie racer in a challenging 2023 season.
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